America goes to the polls

Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times

Poll worker Herdon Shelnut helps fellow poll worker Jerry Roby, 64, vote from a gurney before he is taken to the hospital by ambulance. Roby lost consciousness as he was passing out ballots at Compton Airport. Before firefighters took him out, Roby's fellow poll workers pulled the gurney up to a ballot machine so that he could vote.

Poll worker Herdon Shelnut helps fellow poll worker Jerry Roby, 64, vote from a gurney before he is taken to the hospital by ambulance. Roby lost consciousness as he was passing out ballots at Compton Airport. Before firefighters took him out, Roby's fellow poll workers pulled the gurney up to a ballot machine so that he could vote. (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)

Poll worker Herdon Shelnut helps fellow poll worker Jerry Roby, 64, vote from a gurney before he is taken to the hospital by ambulance. Roby lost consciousness as he was passing out ballots at Compton Airport. Before firefighters took him out, Roby's fellow poll workers pulled the gurney up to a ballot machine so that he could vote.